Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role of the hare in the race toward union (if race it was), wanted an assembly whose delegates would directly represent their countries' population. They would vote publicly, without regard to the nations' official policies. They could not commit their governments to action; they could, however, stir up public opinion at home. The British, who were playing tortoise, suggested, instead, a council of ministers which would meet in private; the members would merely represent their governments, and be bound by them...
...trade. In a planned economy (which Britain's Socialist government considers indispensable to Western Union), the Lancashire-Lyon shift would be the subject of a formal government decision. It would come up for discussion in the kind of assembly the French want (say the British), and it would stir up nationalist resentment in Lancashire, which would make agreement harder...
...this stir was the result of a wideawake promotion by the onetime sleepy cotton industry. In plugging these apparently unimportant items it had a highly important purpose. It hoped to win a nip & tuck race with papermakers for what has usually been one of the biggest markets for U.S. cotton textiles (bags absorbed about 8% of all cotton textile production before...
...With White Stuff. It was a nice, orderly trial. There was a little stir when people saw Goldwasser come in-him a white man-holding Amy's arm, and carrying Amy's baby. One farmer couldn't help saying out loud: "Don't that make you sick?" But it was sort of comical too. The defense made Goldwasser a witness; this enabled them to send him outside the courtroom as soon as the trial started...
...merriest, wackiest newspictures. After 40 minutes, London's firemen brought the miscreant down to earth. Next day both celebrants were resting quietly; the plumber in Brixton jail, the god in the hands of statue doctors. Damage to the god: $192. Damages to the plumber: three months in stir, and cost of the repairs...